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Peacock and peahen with cherry blossom and peonies
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Description
This spectacular hanging depicts a peacock perched in a flowering ornamental cherry tree, with a peahen standing beneath, surrounded by peonies. The cherry shown is the double-petalled yaezakura, which was extremely popular and grown all over Japan during the early Meiji period. Sumiyama was a smallscale Kyoto producer of ornamental textiles. Little is yet known as about the designer Miki, or indeed about most of the designers of Meiji ornamental textiles. (Exhibition number 24)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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c. 1900
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed, and embroidered with coloured silk and paper-backed gold foil wrapped around a silk or cotton core (both partly applied over cotton wadding) and flat silk; silk brocade border in light- and dark-brown
- Dimensions
- 300 x 199 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.37
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 24 p. 134, p. 31, illus. pp. 134-135
Past Exhibition
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Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
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- returned to owner
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